State ex rel. Director of Revenue v. Pennoyer

CRAHAN, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition filed by the Director of Revenue (“Director”) seeking to prevent the respondent circuit judge from enforcing stay orders and entertaining declaratory judgment actions in two separate causes styled Mark S. La-Chance v. Janette M. Lohman, Director of Revenue, Cause No. CV593-385CC, and Robert James Stevens v. Raymond T. Wagner, Jr., Director of Revenue, Cause No. CV593-472CC, now pending in the Circuit Court of St. Francois County, Missouri.1 Director maintains that the circuit court lacks jurisdiction to stay an order of the Director…